Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning | College of Design (2024)

Apr 1

Join us this Wednesday, April 3rd, for a wonderful lecture with Thomas Woltz, senior principal of Nelson Byrd Woltz.

The lecture will take place in Burns Auditorium at 4:30-6pm. Along with this, there will be a brown bag lunch from 12-1pm and happy hour at Players Retreat starting at 6pm.

CEU’s will be available. Go to https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/laep_lecture_thomas_woltz for more information.

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Mar 27

Don’t forget, today is jam packed with events!

12-1: Brown Bag Lunch with Barbara Deutsch in the Pit
4:30-5:30: Lecture with Barbara Deutsch in Burns Auditorium
5:30: Happy Hour at Players Retreat

See you there!

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Mar 23

Congratulations to Claire Henkel @fancy___nancy___ and @ncsucoastaldynamics on receiving the CELA Academy of Fellows Best Poster Award! Thank you for your hard work!

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Mar 20

Join us next Wednesday, March 27th for Barbara Deutsch’s lecture “Designing for People and Planet: a Great Time to be a Landscape Architect” @lafoundation

The lecture will take place in Burns Auditorium from 4:30-6pm. For licensed professionals, this lecture is a great opportunity for CEU’s.

Go to https://calendar.ncsu.edu/event/laep_lecture_barbara_deutsch for more information.

#landscapearchitecture #visions #lectureseries

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Mar 19

New Landscape Declaration

Tomorrow, Wednesday March 20th, SASLA and the LAEP department is sponsoring a brown bag lunch and evening lecture with Kyle Verseman and Jayne Worth from Landscape Forms.

Please welcome them at the brown bag lunch in the pit from 12-1.
The lecture will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 in Burns Auditorium.

See you there!

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February 28, 2024 A Groundbreaking Designer’s NCState Roots Brandon Johnson has known what he wanted to do for a career since he spent a good part of his seventh-grade English class doodling golf course designs on his blue-lined notebook paper. When he came to NCState in the fall of 1992, he told advisor Art Rice his goal was to create golf courses, which… February 27, 2024 Noelle Robinson Wins Robert. L. Wesley Award School of Architecture student Noelle Robinson was one of five students to win the 2024 SOM Foundation’s Robert L. Wesley Award. With her win, Noelle will receive a $10,000 award in addition to a yearlong mentorship program that connects the students with leading BIPOC practitioners and educators. February 21, 2024 Discover the Power of Design Thinking Aspiring designers arrive at the College of Design with diverse dreams and leave prepared to bring the values of design thinking to their communities and careers. January 31, 2024 LAF Fellowship Spotlight: Meg Calkins on a Material Shift About 90% of a constructed site’s carbon footprint comes from the materials used to build it. If landscape architects really want to reduce the carbon footprint of their work, they need to radically rethink not just materials selection but also material assemblies and the types structures they design. This is Meg Calkins’ message to the discipline and the focus of her 2023-24 LAF Fellowship.

As supporters of the New Landscape Declaration, we emphasize evidence-based inquiry and design thinking that positions students and graduates to engage with and propel the landscape architecture profession into the future as it evolves in response to environmental and societal imperatives.

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Our mission is to teach, learn, research, and apply state-of-the-art practices thatcreate innovative and resilient landscapes focused on human and ecosystem health, safety, well-being, social equity, and quality of life.

We prepare the next generation of landscape architects to engage challenges and opportunities focused on:

Landscape dynamics and resilient design;
Community planning and design;
Design for children and families;
Research and evidence-based design strategies;
Emerging digital design tools for representation, simulation,and evaluation.

Graduate Landscape Architecture

The Master of Landscape Architecture (MLA) is a STEM-designated degree and LAAB accredited program that prepares graduate students for the rigors of professional practice, research, leadership, and community engagement. Our students, faculty, and local design community seek to understand the impact of human actions on the land and to respond with community-based design strategies. We are dedicated to teaching, researching, and practicing design processes that acknowledge the interdependence of built landscapes and ecological, social, and economic systems.

The department offers three main academic curriculum tracks:

First Professional Masters of Landscape Architecture (Track III)
First Professional Masters of Landscape Architecture, Advanced Standing (Track II)
Post-Professional Degree (Track I)

The first half of the academic program prepares students for the current practice and discipline of landscape architecture. It equips them with the core knowledge base, tools, processes, and skills in design, site works, history and theory, planning, research and the culture of professional practice.

The second half of the academic program propels students into the profession and discipline of the future that they will help evolve and lead. It positions students to pursue substantive inquiry into their own, those of the faculty, and those of the larger extended community. Students master bodies of knowledge, pursue evidence-based research, and hone verbal, written, and graphic communication skills.

Throughout their program of study, students combine critical design thinking talents with their intelligence, creativity, and passions to frame, engage and challenge the questions, problems, and situations of landscape that involve health, safety, wellbeing, and quality of life.

The department also offers the following certificates and programs:

Graduate Minors and Certificate Programs

Graduate minors are available to all students and consist of nine credit hours of courses, in another graduate degree granting discipline, listed as 400-level or above. A member of that degree’s faculty may serve as a third member of the student’s final project committee. Certificates offered in GIS, Public Policy and Horticultural Science may be of particular interest. Please visit the Graduate Minors and Certificate Pagefor more information.

Graduate Certificate in City DesignThe Graduate Certificate in City Design focuses on design at the scale of the city, and within neighborhoods and urban districts. Studios and seminars focus on the challenges, and opportunities facing communities and cities in the 21st century, with a particular emphasis upon principles of sustainability and urban ecology.Learn moreDisaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design CertificateThe imperative motivating the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Resilient Policy, Engineering and Design is to educate the next generation of practitioners and scholars to apply knowledge gained in the classroom and in the field to reduce the rise in disaster losses and assist communities to adapt to a changing climate.Learn more

Inter-Institutional Study

Students at NCState University may also register for courses at local universities (UNC–Chapel Hill, UNC-Greensboro, and Duke University) paying NCState University credit fees. Our students have an exceptional range of courses and programs open to them through these inter-institutional study opportunities. Students may also take courses at the other Raleigh colleges that are members of theCooperating Raleigh Collegesorganization. Please visit the Inter-Institutional Study Pagefor more information.

View the 2023-2024 MLA Program Handbook

RA/TA + Scholarship Opportunities

Undergraduate Minor in Landscape Architecture

While we no longer offer a Bachelor of Landscape Architecture, it is possible for NCState University undergraduate students to take certain landscape architecture courses as electives. Please visit theUndergraduate Minorin Landscape Architecture Pagefor more information.

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See more examples of student work here: Department of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning Student Work

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Mar 20

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Mar 20

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Mar 19

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